Whiffletree-connection



D. D. TNEY. WHIFFLBT ONNEG N.

Pate d May 28, 1889.

(No Model.)

211651 65565 fizz 670W UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL D. VHITNEY, OF CORNXVALL, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNQR TO THE \VHIT- NEY COUPLING COMPANY, OF l/VHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

WHlFFLETREE-CONNECTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,371, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed January 19, 1889. Serial No. 296,360. (No modeL) T aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL D. WHITNEY, of Cornwall, county of Orange, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in \Vhiflietree-Connections, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve the construction of whiffletree-connections,

whereby thgsame may be made more serviceable; and it consists in certain details of construction to be hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 shows in Vertical longitudinal section the central portion of a whiffletree and cross-bar provided with the connection embodying my invention; Fig. 2, an under side view of the upperbearing or chafer plate and its sleeve, and Fig. 3 a top view of the lower bearing or chafer plate.

The cross-bar a of a pair of shafts (not shown) has secured to its upper side, as by screws to, the lowerbearing or chafer plate I), said plate havinga bushing, b, whichis fitted into or extends down through a hole in the cross-bar, and preferably at the lower end abuts against a plate, 0, attached to the under side of the cross-bar.

v The bushing Z) receives within it a sleeve,

0 d, projecting from the upper bearing or chafer plate d, secured to the under side of the whiffletree e by screws 6'. Preferably the sleeve (Z will extend down into the bushing I) nearly to the plate 0. A retaining-bolt, f,

5 inserted, preferably, from the upper side of the whifiletree, passes down through the sleeve (Z and through a hole in the plate 0, and receives upon its end a suitable washerand nut, f. The upper or contacting surface of 0 the lower bearing or chafer plate, Z), is provided with one or more recesses, g, which are filled with graphite or other anti-friction material to reduce to a minimum the friction between the plates.

I am aware that it is common to secure to the under side of a cross-bar a plate provided with a tube extending upward through the whiflietree and receiving within ita bolt; but in such construction it has been found that the tube is liable to fracture at a point midway between the cross-bar and whiffletree.

In my improved construction the strain is brought to bear upon the sleeve at a point where it is best adapted to withstand itviz., at its junction with the bearing or chafer plate. The sleeve d also has a metallic bearing throughout its entire length, or nearly so, in the bushing l) of the bearing or chafer plate I), thus reducing the wear and consequent objectionable rattle to a minimum.

I am aware that fiftlrwhecls having antifriction bearing-surfaces are in use. ThereforeI do not herein broadly claim a bearingplate having an anti-friction bearing-surface.

I claiIn- 1. In a whiiiictrce-conncot-ion, a hearing or chafer plate, cl, adapted to be secured to the whiflietree and having a sleeve extended downwardly into or through the cross-bar, and the retaining-bolt f within it, combined with a companion bearing or chafer plate, I), secured to the cross-bar and having a bushing, which also extends down into or through the said cross-bar and receives Within it the said sleeve, substantially as described.

2. In a whiffletree-connection, the combination, with the protected retaining-bolt f, of two hearing or chafer plates located between a cross-bar and whililetree, one of which plates has an anti-friction bearing-surface, or substantially so, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL D. IVHITNEY.

WVitnesses:

JAMES EMsLIE, J 12., RICHARD L. EMsLIE. 

